New York, Nov 8 (THAINDIAN NEWS) The salvaged steel of the bombed twin towers (World Trade center) has been now made into the USS New York, and it was put into Navy service Saturday both as a symbol of closure and strength.

“No matter how many times you attack us, we always come back,” Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus said at the amphibious assault ship’s commissioning. “America always comes back. That’s what this ship represents.”

“I hereby place the USS New York in commission,” Mabus announced.

It took 7 1/2 tons of steel debris from the World Trade center to form the bow of the USS New York as “a symbol of our unshakable resolve; this is a city built of steel,” said Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, representing the Obama administration.

“But the strongest steel of New York has always been in the spines of its people,” Clinton said, calling New Yorkers “strivers and seekers, immigrants from every country, speakers of every language.”

“It awes me to think that from the ashes, this ship has formed and to know it’s serving us,” said Helen Zaccoli, who suffered the death of her husband, Joseph in the trade center attack.

Ironically workers who suffered another mishap, and survived it too also built this ship. Workers who survived the ferocious Hurricane Katrina built the $1 billion warship USS New York near New Orleans.